Hello mark,

On 13 Dec 16 08:34, mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> Do you have this wrapper handy?

 ml> yeah... i forget who pointed me to it... it comes as source and is
 ml> very easy to compile...

 ml> [time passes]

 ml> ahhh... get it from here: https://github.com/keaston/cp437

Got it, and thanks. I've compiled it and place it in /usr/local/bin.

 ml> i don't know if it affects programs run via shelling out or not... i
 ml> use the internal editor...

 ml> FWIW: i use the following command line to start my golded with
 ml> cp437...

 ml>   ~/cp437/cp437 ~/fido/bin/golded -c~/fido/etc/golded.conf

Alas, this will not work for me either. Since I use putty to access that
machine, I have putty's settings as UTF-8 as well. So the cp437 binary does
absolutely nothing. If I change putty to use cp437, of course things display
properly without the need for that wrapper, but that completely ruins any
possibility of UTF-8 as well.

I will just continue tinkering with JamNNTPd and slrn for the time being. It
seems to be the only way for things to work properly so far, as I believe even
cp437 line drawings and blocks show correctly in slrn due to it using iconv, so
it all gets translated to UTF-8 properly.

I tried looking at Golded's code last night to see what using ICONV=1 on the
make line would actually do, but couldn't find anything useful and I remember
it being buggy as all get out the last time I tried compiling with that option.
Eh well, back to the drawing board. :)

Regards,
Nick

... "Не знаю. Я здесь только работаю."
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